March 14th, 2024 Session 1:
Session Change: Earned $33.28
Session Playtime Duration: 1hr 24minutes
Current Balance: $538.86
March 9th, 2024 Challenge Starting Balance: $354.22
So this one was interesting. So what I needed to do was play NL25. Play it up from 100bb to 200bb ($25 to $50) and then I would then go to play NL50 finally
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Well what happened was this table was super aggro. I'm getting 3-bet a lot. Dude's shoving the SB vs LP openers. I eventually ended up down from 100bb to 21.8bb... I eventually got a pair of 33.
I then faced a 3-bet from the button. I opened UTG to 4bb. He 3-bet with a full 102bb stack from the button to 13.4 bb. I then had a decision to make. I considered my position, his positon ,my stack size, his stack size, and my hand strength and range vs range in this spot. I decided that considering I am short stacked he is very likely to do this 3-bet fairly wide especially in positon with many hands that are not as strong as my pair. I decided to go for the 4-bet all in which he could possibly fold right there, and if he called I still am a favorite vs a hand as strong as AKs.
I made the 4-bet shove. He called with A7s. We ran the cards. I faded both the A and the 7 and doubled my stack.
Love that hand because when I was a beginner I may of folded in that spot.
Here's a hand I missplayed... I went all in on the river as if this was a rec. He literally called pre, flop and turn without raising or anything at all. He folded. I thought he could have an overpair, but I thought about it and there's so few pocket pairs play the way OP played that could call and realized that literally ZERO hands can call my river big value bet that don't crush me (unless of course someone just makes a ludacris river call with something crazy, or they decided to play Q6s, or K6s but honestly who plays that? lol. 66, 77, 55, 89s, JJ, 34s. AK, AQ, AJ, ATs, 88, 99, TT are all way too scared including the most likely candidate which was a busted flush draw like a KQs, A2s, A3s, A4s, A5s, A6s (only 1 combo remaining), A7s, A8s, A9s. QQ, KK, AA, probably would of 3-bet me pre so those aren't as likely to be in the pot considering I pre-raised it.
Now that I think about it you may think 56, but there's zero combos remaining of 56s due to the board run out so if he has a 6 it has to be a garbage trash hand that should of never been played in the first place, or we're chopping with A6o (3 combos remaining)
I should of went for thin value (or just checked against a aggressive opponent although this was a more passive op. I never played a pot with them before) and allowed all the busted flush draws to make a river bluff thinking that I missed my flush if I would have checked river OOP.
Here's a hand I played right. Aggressive OP raised UTG. I call the SB with JQo. I didn't raise as to not bloat the pot, or make them cautious post flop. Also I'm OOP here with a hand I would play anyway so let's play. I call, and BB comes along. I hit trips on QQ9r. I check back to allow them to bet their entire UTG range which is strong. I'm only losing to KQ (4 combos) and AQ (4 combos), and 99 (1 combo) in which if I lost to 99 then congratulatons good hand. It happens.. (yesterday one dude hit quad 8s within 30 minutes) I check to allow aggressive op to make his standard c-bet on this board that hits his perceived range. He c-bets for 2/3 pot. Of course I just call here. Raising if just going to fold out all his unpaired value hands like AK, and AJs as well as all his medium strength pocket pairs and smaller pairs, range balancing hands like suited aces, etc, etc. 9 comes on the turn. bringing me a nut full house and bringing a diamond flush draw onto the board. I check back allowing any Ax hand to continue to bluff thinking they have the nuts with QQ99A. Also it allows all his bluffs and value hands to continue thinking they are going for value. He checks turn. Not want we want. Now river comes a 4c which is basically a brick. So at this point I want value. I realize the flush has missed. I could bet small here and make it look like I am weak. This dude raised UTG so he likely is strong and has position. He's gonna want to win this pot, and try to use his position to do it as a semi bluff against the full house board. I bet small. Thin value bet, but a good sizing to also induce a re-raise while also getting me value if I just get called. As desired I get raised. He then bets pot. He has 41.8BB behind with 31.7bb out. I use my calculator 41.8 + 31.7 = 73.5. I bet 73.6 (gotta account for rounding issues of course). OP called with TT and he's STACKED and disappeared! GG!!!!! THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE !
When I was newer I might of got carried away and checked down, or raised flop. I played this hand perfectly. Yeah buddy!
Last hand I'll detail. 3.4bb raise from OP UTG. 1 call from the CUTOFF. I 3-bet big to get heads up. Cutoff folds. I flop nut flush draw with 2 over cards. I check. OP bets pot. I call. turn brings 2 flush draws. I bet ops entire stack + 0.1 (rounding problems. Gotta get the all in) as a semi bluff to represent a set, and I still have massive massive river equity. OP calls. I hit the A on the river. OP stacked with QQ. Yeah buddy!
And BOOM we now had 212 BB... We're going to NL50 Baby! Went from 100bb to 21.8bb to 212 bb. Let's ****ing go!!!!
I'm going to NL50 next session. I may take a little break since I wrote this whole post for 50 minutes LOL.
NL50 TIME!
Last edited by Mallot1; 03-14-2024 at 03:42 PM.